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김민형Min Hyung Kim
한림대학교 동탄성심병원
Emerg. Infect. Dis, May 2024, 30 (5) | https://doi.org/10.3201/eid3005.231588
Identifying Contact Time Required for Secondary Transmission of Clostridioides difficile Infections by Using Real-Time Locating System
Min Hyung Kim, Jaewoong Kim, Heejin Ra, Sooyeon Jeong, Yoon Soo Park, Dongju Won, Hyukmin Lee1, and Heejung Kim1
Hallym University Dongtan Sacred Heart Hospital, Hwasieong, South Korea (M.H. Kim); Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea (J. Kim, D. Won, H. Lee); Yonsei University Yongin Severance Hospital, Yongin, South Korea (H. Ra, S. Jeong, Y.S. Park, H. Kim)
1These authors contributed equally to this article.
Address for correspondence: Heejung Kim
Abstract
Considering patient room shortages and prevalence of other communicable diseases, reassessing the isolation of patients with Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is imperative. We conducted a retrospective study to investigate the secondary CDI transmission rate in a hospital in South Korea, where patients with CDI were not isolated. Using data from a real-time locating system and electronic medical records, we investigated patients who had both direct and indirect contact with CDI index patients. The primary outcome was secondary CDI transmission, identified by whole-genome sequencing. Among 909 direct and 2,711 indirect contact cases, 2 instances of secondary transmission were observed (2 [0.05%] of 3,620 cases), 1 transmission via direct contact and 1 via environmental sources. A low level of direct contact (113 minutes) was required for secondary CDI transmission. Our findings support the adoption of exhaustive standard preventive measures, including environmental decontamination, rather than contact isolation of CDI patients in nonoutbreak settings.
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- Research article
- 2024년 05월 (BRIC 등록일 2024-05-08)
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